Nurturing flowerpot



Jan. 14, 1941. F. LUIPERSBEK NURTURING FLOWERPOT' Filed Feb. 12, 1940 gvwemio'c FLui aensbek $51 714'4 fitted MM;

Patented Jan. 14, 1941 v V UNITED STATES Parent. orrlcE NURTURING FLoWERPo'r Frank Luipersbek, New York, N. Y.

Application February '12, 1940, Serial No. 318,483

4 Claims. (01. 41-34) The main object of this invention is to provide filled with some suitable leaf mold or top soil an. ornamental urn suitable for the planting of after the compartment 25 has been filled with a tropical flowers or ferns therein. The device dung or fertilizer rich in nitrates or other necescomprises a chamber for soil which is adapted to sary chemical compounds. By igniting the gas 5 be heated by a gas burner and also kept in emanating from the burner II and adjusting the 5 moisture. same to provide a small flame, the heated eX- The above and other objects will become aphaust gases and air pass upward between the parent in the description below in which characbowl wall l8 and the urn wall I9. Thus the temters of reference refer to like-named parts in the perature of the fertilizer and soil is raised, and

10 accompanying drawing. the heat thus applied directly to the bottom of 10 Referring briefly to the drawing, the chamber 25 aids the soil in drawing nourish- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevational ment from the fertilizer therein. The roots of view through the plant urn. the plant set in the soil in the chamber 21, may Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same. be drawn through the openings 24 so that they Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral dip into the fertilizer in the compartment 25, if 5 l0 indicates a panel or table topprovided with desired. This is particularly d p e for use an opening in which a convenient type of gas by horticultural nurserymen Who mature plants burner II is received. Over this gas burner an to the blossoming stage and then ship these upward bellied bell l2 with a perforated roof I3, plants to market, as it is possible to raise several is formed in the floor l4, mentioned below. The crops f hese plants a year. 20 bell forms part of a frame having the floor I4 Since the urn 19, member 23, and the ribs 20 thereof mounted upon curved legs I5. The floor ay all be lifted intact as a unit and removed continues upwardly as a cylindrical encircling from the bowl frame by lifting the urn, and then wall l6 from which finger grip arms I! extend stood on the feet 29 on a table, a plurality of such radially. A bowl-like formation I 8' surmounts units may be provided to be used successively 2. the frame. The bowl l8, consisting of the enwith a single frame, so that while a plant or the circling wall l6 having the floor l4, forms a consoil or fertilizer is being cha ged, another unit tainer in which an urn I9 is housed. To provide y be n use in e a e, t u avoiding Waste rigidity to the urn and to space it from the bowl of time which is of considerable value in forced .30. i8, radial longitudinal ribs'20 are formed extebreeding. r riorly of the urn, these ribsbeing bent at a right It is to be noted that certain changes in form angle intermediate their length to provide feet 29 and Co struct on ay e de W o t departing resting on the floor l4 and horizontal seats 30 from the spirit and cope Of the invention. for the urn. I claim:

A flange-like recess 2| in the base 22 of the A evice of e l ss e cribed c mpr in a 35 urn removably receives a hollow flanged member bowl-like frame comprising an upright wall and 23 whose removable lid or cap 28 is provided with a horizontal floor, said floor having an upwardly perforations 24. The bottom wall 3! of the body curved perforated belly in the center thereof, said 26 is sealed with a complementary upward belly belly being adapted to have a burner mounted 40 3i. A tubular projection 32, open at the bottom, thereunder, an urn of lesser diameter than said 40 extends downward to a point near the belly [3, frame having ribs extending radially from the and the body 26 registers therein. The compartwall thereof, said urn being mounted Within said ment 25 in the depending body 26 of the memframe wall with the lower ends of said ribs restber 23, is adapted to be filled with moist dung or ing on said floor and the outer edges contacting fertilizer, not shown. The chamber 21 enclosed the inner surface of said frame WalLsaid urn 4.5

by the urn i9, is adapted to be filled with earth, having a flange-like depression in the floor therenot shown, so that the plant, not shown, growing of and a tubular projection extending downward in the soil, will receive sustenance from the from said depression, said projection being open aforesaid fertilizer. at the bottom and terminating near and above The device is adapted to serve as means for said belly, a hollow member having an open 50 nurturing and maturing horticultural plants, esflange at the top mounted in said depression and pecially those of the tropical variety, where a having the body thereof registering in said tubuhigher temperature is required than that norlar projection, said member having a removable mally necessary with plants indigenous to the perforated cap, said urn being adapted to have temperate zone. The chamber 21 of the urn is soil placed therein, said hollow member being 55 adapted to have plant nurturing substances placedtherein.

2. A device of the class described comprising a bowl-like frame comprising an upright wall and a horizontal floor, said floor having an upwardly curved perforated belly in the center thereof, said belly being adapted tohave a burner mounted thereunder, an urn of lesser diameter than said frame having ribs extending radially from the wall thereof, said urn being mounted within said frame wall with the lower ends of said ribs resting on said floor and the outer edges contacting the inner surface of said frame wall, said urn having a flange-like depression in the floor there of and a tubular projection extending downward from said depression, said projection being open at the bottom and terminating near and above said belly,, a hollow member having an open flange at the top mounted in said depression and having the body thereof registering in said tubular projection, said member having a removable perforated cap, said urn being adapted to have soil placed therein, said hollow member being adapted to have plant nurturing substances placed therein, the bottom of said hollow member being upwardly bellied to complement said belly in said floor.

3. A device of the class described comprising a bowl-like frame having an upright wall and a horizontal floor, said floor having an upwardlycurved perforated belly in the center thereof, said belly being adapted to have a burner mounted thereunder, an urn of lesser diameter than said frame having ribs extending radially from the wall thereof, said urn being mounted within said frame with the lower ends of said ribs resting on said floor and the outer edges contacting the innor surface of said frame well, said urn having an opening through the floor thereof above said belly, a hollow perforated member projecting through said opening toward said belly and having a flange on the upper end thereof overlapping the periphery of said opening whereby said member is removably suspended from said flange, said urn being adapted to have soil placed therein, said member being adapted to have nurturing substances placed therein.

4. A device of the class described comprising a bowl-like frame having an upright wall and a horizontal floor, said floor having an upwardly extending perforated belly in the center thereof, said belly being adapted to have a burner mounted thereunder, an urn of lesser diameter than said frame having ribs extending" radially therefrom, said ribs being elongated in a vertical direction to extend below said urn, said urn being mounted within said frame with the lower ends of said ribs resting on said floor and the outer edges separating said urn from said frame wall, said urn having an opening through the floor thereof above said belly, a hollow perforated member removably suspended from said opening, said urn being adapted to have soil placed therein, said member being adapted to have nurturing substances placed therein.

FRANK LUIPERSBEK. 

